If not for those with voluntarist principles like BM, me and so many others, how many of you would be here?
It's not fair to exclude those who do not share your views from being able to share BM's views.
That's the case with me: I fully agree with BM's views but have problems with yours.
So it must be the case that you and I interpret BM's words differently.
If you mix evil and virtue you loose virtue. You can't win by partnering with your enemy, and make no mistake the banksters ARE your enemy, they only want to use you like a milk cow and they will feed you as little as they can while they drain every last drop of milk from your body.
This is my interpretation of BM views: we CAN partner with anybody, including mainstream banking, but we must draw a line which we will never cross and this line says this: freedom and privacy will always be maintained for market-pegged-assets. As long as we keep this line sacred it's safe for us to be open to any business opportunity.
I respect your treating banksters as your enemy. I don't like them either. I think the world would be much better without them. But I also think they have too much power to fight them openly. We need to be smart.
So let us have more faith in BitShares. We are strong enough to be able to partner with our ideological enemy and defeat it by eventually making it obsolete.
Thanks for your perspective Jakub. Respectfully, I think your fooling yourself, tho perhaps your view of BM's philosophy is more accurate than mine. All I can do is judge by what he has written as what business deals he endorses.
As to "openly fighting them", that's a mis-characterization. Crypto-currency was born from the idea of creating an
alternative to the mainstream financial world. It is we the people that are the engines of innovation and production, lets stop relinquishing our value to institutions and systems that seek to harness (i.e. appropriate, like a parasite) OUR value. We do that by applying our creativity to build alternate means of trade & transfer among ourselves, in new and autonomous systems like BitShares. It won't be easy, but if you truly believe in the free market, and you can sustain the effort to create such an alternative, its merits will eventually catch on as people realize the alternate system is better in almost every respect. It will not start off being better, but it will get better and better as time goes on as long as freedom prevails in it's growth.
I think it's a mistake to think we can hold onto the principle of freedom and privacy (don't really know why you only mentioned BitAssets, the ecosystem envisions so much more than that) and also comply with the whims of a corrupt partner. You're playing with fire, taking a big risk, and ignoring their motive to do whatever it takes to gain control over the ecosystem.
What partnership between the mafia and legitimate business ever works to be mutually beneficial? They have power over their "honest" partners through threats & blackmail, or at the very least corrupt their honesty into non-existence.
Partnerships between good & evil never end in a mutually beneficial standoff. Either the partnership is terminated or one partner or the other will gain dominance.
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